Background

Work Experience

Over 3 years of professional experience building scalable systems and leading technical projects.

Backend Engineer / Contributor

Mum Mentor AI (Nora)

Nov 2025 – Present

Remote

  • Contributed core backend features and integrations for Nora (Mum Mentor AI), a conversational companion for new mothers.
  • Implemented and maintained the async notification system using Celery with RabbitMQ and Redis, improving background task reliability and throughput.
  • Built and enhanced AI-related backend components (memory extraction, AI personality layers), and added real-time voice chat WebSocket endpoints for live audio sessions.
  • Integrated OAuth providers (Apple/Google), profile image handling, multi-image upload endpoints, and robust API input validation using Pydantic.
  • Authored tests and performed codebase refactors to improve maintainability; collaborated on Alembic migrations and production deployment workflows.

Machine Learning Engineer

Pedana Global

April 2024 – Nov 2025

Nigeria (Remote)

  • Built and deployed a production-ready building detection system using U-Net + Attention, achieving 92% IoU and reducing manual surveying time by 70%.
  • Engineered a geospatial ML pipeline converting high-resolution imagery into spatially-aware training tiles, processing 1000+ tiles across Nigerian cities.
  • Designed custom loss functions (Focal, Dice, Boundary-weighted) to handle class imbalance and improve edge detection by 15%.

Software Developer

Salesngine

Feb 2024 – April 2024

Nigeria (Remote)

  • Designed and deployed an image similarity API using FastAPI and CLIP, handling 195k+ images and reducing query latency by 25%.
  • Built a multi-site web scraper feeding data from 13 e-commerce platforms into PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
  • Implemented a serverless image search feature using ResNet50 and FAISS on AWS Lambda.